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Thats 2 pm in the eastern United States and the race for the white house is still too close to call the results from 7 states are still outstanding and most could go either way while counting polls for the night in some states wisconsin has continued thats where we are expecting results to come from next in the last hour the Trump Campaign announced it will request the recount there were also expecting to hear from trumps democratic challenger joe biden soon hes urging his supporters to be patient insisting he is on track for victory well this is how the race is stands at the moment a winner will only be confirmed when they reach 270. 00 Electoral College votes hundreds of thousands of ballots still need to be counted with results unclear in the key battleground states of michigan georgia and pennsylvania but that hasnt stopped donald trump from falsely declaring himself the winner despite votes still being counted hes threatening to go to the Supreme Court something that biden steen said they are ready to challenge. This is a fraud on the American Public this is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election frankly we did win the solar. Wind through our goal now is to ensure the integrity. For the good of this nation this is a very big moment this is a major for order nation we want the law to be used in a proper manner so well be going to the u. S. Supreme court we want all voting to stop we dont want them to find any ballot said 4 oclock in the morning and add them to the list the president speaking earlier there were lets go live to alan fischer in washington d. C. To get a clearer idea of whats happening so we heard the president there threatening to go to the Supreme Court actually in the past few minutes weve heard that the trunk campaign has filed the suit in michigan to stop the counting of ballots there what more do we know whats the significance of this. World just to be absolutely clear what theyre asking for from the courts is that they get access to this site where theyre actually counting ballots they say that members of the campaign have not been able to access the number of sites where the ballots are being opened they want to make sure that they can be there as well know when the states set up these polling places theres normally people from both parties it might just be that theres no one from the Trump Campaign who is actually in the room when it happens but presumably that will become clear because theyre moving to the courts within the next couple of hours weve also had in the last couple of hours as well that the Trump Campaign has demanded a recount in wisconsin we were told that joe biden was ahead there probably somewhere in the region of 10000. 00 votes thats within the margin of error one percent so that titles the campaign to ask for a recount they have 3 Business Days to do that but theyre doing it they see immediately and there are some 13 days for the state to carry out a recount now that can either be a fool recount or a partial recount we should get some information from there but obviously donald trump flagged weeks ago that he was going to use the lawyers in trying to win this election he said that if he didnt when then it was being stolen from him something that almost retracted when he spoke to Party Workers and in front of Party Workers in arlington. On tuesday the day of the election but its clear that he thinks that theres some sort of fraud going on in hasnt offered any evidence of this at all hes retreated a couple of people have since deleted tweets when they have talked about 128 percent of votes that have been phone went for joe biden who is that possible theyve century attracted that but dont tom stoppard up on his his twitter feed followed by millions of millions of people as we know so this isnt just going to be decided in the in the ballot box its going to be disabled in the courts as well so at least 2. Actions that we knew of from the Trump Campaign and we can probably expect the perhaps another one the Trump Campaign planning a News Conference in philadelphia in but 90 minutes time and it trump is going to take the lead on the along with his wife a lot of trump both 2 senior figures a lot of time senior figure in the Trump Campaign eric trump of course the son of donald trump and we expect that they will announce that theyre going to look at the way the votes are being counted in pennsylvania as well a state that the trunk Campaign Said by their estimates they should be winning by about 40000 votes and of course 20 electoral votes there and still no result what do you think the likelihood is then that this could drag on with the recounts and challenges to the counting process bearing in mind that we dont actually even have the official results now for several very key states. Exactly were still waiting for results from georgia from North Carolina from wisconsin from out of sooner from d michigan. And so and of course from pennsylvania so theres a lot of growing still to cover a lot of Electoral College votes still up for grabs certainly there will be recounts in some of these places weve already seen that in wisconsin if its tight. One of the the parties think that they have been treated fairly if they think they need to get a judge to intervene. All of them have got very high profile very expensive lawyers on the payroll have had since very early in this campaign built up those legal teams in the days as we approach the election so its almost certain that some of them are going to be used. On official with the latest there from washington d. C. Alan that we will of course be Touching Base with you again in the coming hours for the moment thank you. Now the Biting Campaign adviser bob bauer has defended the voting process and says americans should have faith that all votes will be tallied at some point here rise before the Supreme Court with a novel proposition that ballots that were lawful be cast by eligible voters but not get counted by the time donald trump wanted them counted that somehow they dont count anymore he will be in for one of the most embarrassing defeats a president ever suffered for the highest court of the land well jim allen joins us live now from wilmington delaware which is of course a joe bidens home state so already complications a legal challenges which we just heard the biden team will and is responding to but so far what is it looking like the pathway for biden to reach the 2070 electra 270. 00 electoral votes looks like right now. Well theres a number of pathways when were talking about the 7 states that are still technically in play that havent been confirmed there is the 3 midwest ones which are probably the easiest ones for him to reach if you were to win them in terms of the numbers when were talking about pennsylvania accounting for 16 electoral votes were talking about michigan similarly 16 and wisconsin which seems like hes won it because the fact that the Trump Campaign is calling for a recount would assume that at least has been called in the favor of by them initially thats 10 that gives you what 161632 another 1042 would technically bring him to that to 70 but there are other routes as well were talking about georgia still being in play although trump seems to be in the lead there its less than half a percentage point so even closer than wisconsin from that perspective were looking at. Nevada that is still in play and i result in a it seems that the Associated Press here has called it in favor of biden and saying that you know senator mccain the late senator mccain had the last laugh in the sense that because he was such a critic of trumps divisive policies that thats helped by the in store on that blue so there are a number of policies and i think that is where the Trump Campaign is getting the confidence in the calm approach that they seem to be. Taking through this votes counts where theyre saying that you know time will essentially prove that biden has been voted as the next president particularly considering thats as the numbers go in terms of the popular vote joe biden has now received the largest number of votes that any president ial candidates in the United States history has ever received which of course reminds everyone of you know how strange perhaps you could say the u. S. Electoral system is where that is not the key issue i mean you mentioned bad things coming out of the biden team what are we hearing about that only how theyre handling i guess the the trump reaction to some of the results but also perhaps you know that even if they do win it will still be a narrow victory. For sure i mean the messaging thats come out of the biden camp is you know a complete contrast to that thats come out from trump trumps one has been one where he is costing doubt over the electoral process where hes accusing his opponents of vulture for voter fraud where hes claiming that are either ballot papers are magically appearing or miraculously disappearing and essentially it is costing a lot of suspicion over the process whereas biden through his campaign chief shes come out and said that this is. You know the america americans rights to practice their democratic or to express the democratic voice through the elections must be protected and this is really a continuation of actually what was the central message in the closing days of the prevote campaign where they said that this was not a choice simply between trump and biden but this was actually a campaign and election day whereby americans had to come out and protect americas democracy they say that trump through the past over the past 4 years has eroded u. S. Democracy now theyre saying hes costing even more doubts on the process and this is something that they cannot let this happen whats very important is to look at the language and the specific words being used by trump as far as the biden camp is concerned when trump talks about you know voting has to stop there is no evidence that anybody is costing the ballots the voting ended late on tuesday when ballots were closed what is happening is counting those ballots so what hes actually also as far as the biting compas concerned and we heard there from the sound bite just before me what trump is actually also is for voting to stop being counted something that would usually be unheard of and somebody you know if he was happening in any other country people would be you know pointing fingers at the holes in that countrys democracy well this is. The United States of america century is meant to be you know the most powerful democracy allegedly in the world you have its president now essentially demanding officials to stop counting votes and that is something that is obviously a lot of people here in the biden camp but its something they say they will ensure doesnt happen. With the latest from delaware for the moment thank you ok well now lets go to john hendren who is live in lansing for us in the battleground state of michigan of course michigan 16 electoral points all eyes there electoral votes all eyes on michigan and wisconsin lets start there any news coming out of that key state for both contenders. Well were told the secretary of state is continuing with the count here there are about 100000 votes to be counted and were told theyre being careful and cautious to ensure that there is an accurate count those votes are expected to be in urban areas. And possibly some early voting so we expect those to lean toward biden if that is correct that would not alter the outcome of the current state of affairs here in michigan but of course then you have the administration saying that they are filed suit to stop the counting and they say theyve done that because they want to observe the counting they have not been given full access to the county that should not affect how the count goes but it gives them the opportunity to do what the Bush Administration did in 2000 and that is the bush v gore election when they were able to challenge individual ballots look for signatures that didnt match look for in that case they were the famous hanging chads or any mistake on the ballot that would allow them to disqualify it and drop the numbers of their opponent in this case joe biden and of course and youve got the trump administrations challenge in wisconsin as well where they say they want a recount the Campaign Says that the president is within his rights to demand a recount because of the closeness of that election i should note that here in michigan in 2016 trump won by a margin of less than 10000 votes the margin is currently significantly larger than that Hillary Clinton did not challenge trump on that but the president has proved to be a litigious character and he is has vowed to bring in lawyers on every aspect of this election and that appears to be what hes doing in the few states that weve gone away used to be the democratic blue wall that is the wall of states from pens. Of a new to minnesota they voted for barack obama and then switched to vote for donald trump in 2016 so well see how that bears out we expect a count here in michigan today on wednesday if that count is not stopped by the lawsuit and we also expect the numbers the final numbers to come out from wisconsin or at least some some verifiably authentic and meaningful numbers that will tell us who is ahead in both of these states but those suits those legal actions could delay the results in both states absolutely john hendren with the latest there. From lansing in michigan thank you well for more on this lets speak to political and social analyst Jason Nichols he joins us live from washington d. C. Via skype sir thank you so much for joining us here lots to talk about of course the full results havent yet come but 1st of all if i can get your reaction on this breaking news that weve had in the past 20 minutes or so that donald trump is filed a lawsuit in michigan to stop the counting of ballots in the president ial election to gain meaningful access as they say what do you make of that Development Well its not surprising donald trump is the type of person who wants to win at all cost and in this case is the cost of our democracy here in the United States and theres a major inconsistency in what theyre asking for they want to stop people from voting or words used to stop the counting of votes in michigan and wisconsin but continue the counting of votes in arizona and nevada where they think that they will close the margin which i dont think is going to happen i think the margin in arizona but look arch. I think but is up for grabs but i still believe their job im going on this race in my opinion is pretty much decided i think the people have spoken i think that joe biden. Would be the winner but the president s legal action is going to continue hes going to keep filing lawsuits hes going to keep delaying this in hopes that it goes to the Supreme Court where he has put 3 justices out of 9 on the court himself so he thinks that somehow we they will be able to reverse the will of the American People and our system we see that joe biden is winning if not only the Electoral College but also winning in the popular vote by a larger margin than his predecessor Hillary Clinton so this is really about destroying our democracy to me its really a travesty that were going to see this probably in the future where people try to litigate a lections rather than let Voters Decide and so its really disappointing in my in my view i suppose you know if we just look at the Election Results as they are now and you say youre confident that biden will win the certainly as a route for him to achieve those 270 electoral points but certainly not the landslide that the Biden Campaign and many other people in the United States were hoping for and only after a pretty controversial presidency by a president but also a pandemic so what do you think i dont know if we can say what wrong but why do you think that biden then achieve that landslide well i think it is possible he could still in electoral landslide if he takes North Carolina and takes georgia which your vote very much possible North Carolina is less possible but georgia the remaining. Votes are. Surrounds atlanta which is largely africanamerican and largely democratic this could be an electoral landslide but lets just say that it isnt i still think that donald trump is tapped into something that has been around in america for a very long time and that is our issues with race and our other social issues and people hes been able to make himself out to be a victim in a way that has tapped into a particular demographic in america that feel that theyre being victimized by the changing demographics in our country by more africanamericans more latinos the fact that. People are getting rights they are. It what americas going to look like in the future and Jason Nichols apologies for having some problems with the skype connection but let me just share some breaking news with you and get you to react to it and were getting it from the Associated Press agency saying that joe biden has one wisconsin this event just coming into us now your reaction. Its not a surprise you know last night it did not look goo